In Eggbeater No. 2, Stuart Davis made up his own geometric shapes. Geometric shapes include squares, rectangles, triangles, circles, and ovals. What was painted was not important. The eggbeater became a stand in for the life of the streets. What was important was line, plane and color.

Davis said that he painted the same kinds of everyday objects for two years. Sometimes a person gets tired of painting landscapes. Then he paints people. Some times he gets tired of painting people then he paints landscapes. And sometimes a boring subject may become interesting.

One day I set up an egg beater in my studio and got so interested in it that I nailed it on a table and kept it there to paint.

Eggbeater No. 2 is one of 5 Eggbeater paintings. Davis also did drawings and prints using the eggbeater ideas.

Davis wanted to be a modern artist. The Eggbeater paintings helped him to reach this goal. Davis stated that the Eggbeater paintings were the basis for all of his later art work.

Some people think that the Eggbeater paintings are like the paintings by Picasso in a style called Cubism. Others think that the paintings are the first modern abstract expression works. Some other people think that Eggbeater paintings were about modern ideas.

Stuart Davis wanted his art to be about the emotional responses (feelings) that people had when looking at his work. Davis said, "Emotion not of the body, but of the intellect. (mind)" Davis cared how you feel, think and react to this painting.